Currently, I have Amanda doing backups with two tape drives ( both are
DLT7000 drives).  I noticed that Amanda deferred many level 0 backups with
the "...[dumps too big, full dump delayed]" in the log file.

The first tape is filled; however, the second tape only taped 8GB of data.

My question is that if Amanda is setup to use both tape drives (both tapes),
wouldn't Amanda will try to fill up both tape as much as possible instead of
postpone the level0 backups?


Yan Lam - Systems Administrator
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